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See also: Recycling
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recycling (countable and uncountable, plural recyclings)
- The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
- (uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.
- He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.
- (usually figurative) Something made by recycling something else.
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 250:
- Eddie Holman is still best remembered for his soulful, falsettoed/sex-changed recycling of Ruby & The Romantics' big-time smoothie from 1963, "Hey There Lonely Boy."
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the practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use
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Verb[edit]
recycling
- present participle and gerund of recycle
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English recycling or from recyclen + -ing.
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Noun[edit]
recycling f or m (plural recyclings)
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